Understanding urban vulnerability, resilience and adaptation: a conceptual framework

Adaptation in cities is not an isolated process, but rather it is embedded in the broader debate on sustainable development, commons and public goods. Through examining adaptation, we touch upon the concepts of urban vulnerability and resilience and try to view cities as complex adaptive systems. Only through this wide optics we can understand climate change adaptation in its complexity. Our paper tries to review recent literature on resilience and adaptation using bibliometric metadata analysis on academic papers.